Man convicted in 2013 slaying of mother outside church

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother.

A DuPage County jury deliberated two hours Thursday before finding Michael Zaky Bassaly of Downers Grove guilty of murdering 61-year-old Yvonne Bassaly. The woman was shot in the head in August 2013 as she sat in the backseat of her car parked in the parking lot of a Coptic Christian church in Burr Ridge.

Michael Bassaly testified Thursday his mother was fatally wounded after she pointed his gun to her head. The 31-year-old Bassaly said he tried to get his finger inside the trigger guard when the gun discharged.

It is a story prosecutors derided as a "desperate pack of lies."

Defense attorney Marc Wolfe said the woman's death was "a horrible accident."